During his closing speech at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference, Ed Davey strongly condemned the Israeli Government’s actions in Gaza:
“Nothing – nothing – can justify what the Netanyahu government is doing to innocent men, women and children in Gaza. We have all seen it. The baby boy – starving and skeletal – held tight in his mother’s arms. The crowds of desperate people, rushing to get food. The bodies of children, killed as they queued for water. Children. A famine unfolding before our eyes.”
Citing the conclusions of leading Israeli human rights organisations B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Ed said:“What is unfolding in Gaza is a genocide. And the United Kingdom must do all it can to make Netanyahu stop.” He called for urgent UK action to end the genocide, lift the aid blockade, secure the release of hostages, and support the creation of a viable Palestinian state.